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mia
mia@movsw.0x0.st
imagine windows GPU drivers so terrible people just start porting the linux drivers
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@mia How the tables have turned.
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Cassandra has had an adventure
xgranade@wandering.shop@mia Having used Linux circa 2006, this is extremely funny to me.
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@xgranade if someone had told me “20 years from now, the company that owns ATi will have better linux drivers than nvidia, and they will be in mainline. also that company will have made both opengl and direct3d practically obsolete” i would not have believed it
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@mia @xgranade Yeah, meanwhile after years of novidia (and a weird-ass SyS iGPU) on various unixes it felt kind of weird that only thing I had to do to use an ATi GPU while they still kept their awful reputation in terms of unix support is just installing it's mesa drivers with the firmware package.
(Which kind of convinced me to go with amdgpu afterwards)
(Which kind of convinced me to go with amdgpu afterwards)
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Haelwenn /элвэн/ 
lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me
@mia @xgranade I'm so glad I haven't had to touch xorg.conf in ages.
(sauce: https://xkcd.com/963/ )
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(sauce: https://xkcd.com/963/ )
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Haelwenn /элвэн/
lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me
@dalias @mia @xgranade At least sometimes split tarballs can make sense, like I remember when Qt (4 I guess) was all in one gigantic source tarball, made me really glad range-request is a thing to resume the download but it would still take an annoyingly long amount of time to download on a crappy connection.
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Cassandrich
dalias@hachyderm.io@lanodan @mia @xgranade I'm all for separating things that were meaningfully independent and where you were previously stuck getting things you didn't want. But the xorg split of xf86 separated like every single header file to its own package with maybe 10k of content and 300k of boilerplate build infrastructure.
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